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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

RIP Memè Perlini

Meme Perlini has died, a symbol of the avant-garde
theater actor of 70 years

The actor, writer and director, both for the theater and
the cinema. He suffered from depression and committed suicide

La Spettacoli

By Anna Bandettini

April 5, 2017

His body was found this morning in the courtyard of the building
where he lived with a caretaker, through Principe Eugenio 32, in the Esquilino
neighborhood in Rome. He threw himself from the fifth floor where his slippers
were found, left there by the window sill. Meme Perlini, director, actor,
writer, film and theater actor has died at the age of 69. He was sick inside
and was suffering from depression for some time. That placid face turned,
always a little 'ironic under his mustache and long black curls, which always
gave the impression he was sad. For years, even in the world of theater, his
world, Perlini was not seen and no longer felt. Today the sad news of his
suicide came. A friend, Ulisse Benedetti, said: "His was suffering from
severe depression, but he was being treated. He had the messy desk of"
drugs. The date of the funeral has not yet been established, Benedetti says,
because he expects the arrival in Rome of the sister of Perlini with his
grandson: "They will decide what to do with Meme an important protagonist
of the Italian theater."

The silence, the isolation of the last opaque years, do
not forget what Memlin Perlini has been an important protagonist of the Italian
theater and, for those who were young in the sixties-seventies something else,
the soul of Italian theatrical experimentation, there was invented, innovated,
changed. Perlini had been the heart of that beautiful and unique wave, that
'creative workshop', which was Rome after 1968 (and a film by Matteo Garrone,
Roman Summer tells the souvenirs and epigones of the famous Roman wineries)
When intersecting art and political motivations, anarcho-surrealist and
existentialist aura, collective and individual joy to push, when opening spaces
of creation like fungi, the beat of 72 years, Technical University, where
Alberico Benigni began, and there were shows and exhibitions, Carmelo good and
Schifano, Leo de Bernardinis and Rotella, Valentino Zeichen and Vasilicò, all
the road companions together Perlini Di Pippo Marca, Dominot, Cosimo Cinieri,
Simone Carella, Valentino Orfeo, Massimo Fedele, Alberto Di Stasio, Giancarlo
Sepe, and after Of the very young Solari-Vanzi-Barberio Corsetti, Antonio
Rezza, Ginacarlo Cauteruccio. And of course Giancarlo Nanni.

It was to take Nanni Perlini as an actor to Beat 72,
where Meme also debuted as director with Pirandello quién? In '73, constituted
as a provocation test in reality a reinterpretation of Pirandello, without the
dust of an author who will remain a reference for Perlini. Also in '73 he
founded the Teatro La Maschera with the painter and stage designer Antonello
Aglioti, he will be his companion for years and the musician Alain Curran.
These years are programs like Tarzan (1974), Amarillo Candor (1974), Otelo por
qué?(1975) en Romaña.

After the ever-present Mask with Aglioti, Perlini opens
the legendary Pyramid Theater, in via Benzoni 53, under the Garbatella, where
he made his best performances: The journey on Lake Constance Peter Handke, Aves
Aristophanes, Shakespeare's Venetian merchant, Wedekind Spring Awakening,
Heliogabalus. With Giancarlo Nanni is the most qualified, educated and
intelligent artists of the so-called Roman vanguard, who has imposed his style
on television (Cavalleria rusticana, 1981), in the cinema, his great love,
where he was a popular actor (castañas buena Pietro Germi (1970 film debut), Giu
la Testa by Sergio Leone (1971), la familia, Ettore Scola (1987), in 1987 by
Carlo Mazzacurati in the la noche italiana and in 2000 in el lenguaje de la
santa, Ignite Luigi Comencini in Eugene (1980) and also in the official theater
that does not at all do the courtship.

Perlini had arrived in Rome in 1968 to study at the
Academy of Fine Arts as an illustrator and designer. Of origins was Romagnolo.
He was born in 1947 in Sant'Angelo in Lizzola December 8, 1947 to a family of
owners of walks. From there with a mythological aura, he drew his love for the
theater. In recent years little had been seen in the public arena. Among the
last headlines to remember in 2004 Ardiente Paciencia Skármeta, even before his
English dock back when Arnold Wesker, and was next to Claudia Cardinale in How
do you want to Pirandello directed by Pasquale Squitieri, but dominated in the
sense of his theater. Perlini has shown, honesty, intelligence as the game of
illusion that can be changed, modified that traditional languages, how we can
innovate and to speak in its time. For this we will remember you.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.